The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-03-31
Silly, Romantic Maidens.

"1Ou common folk know nothing
about adoratiOn," cried popular act
ress the other day. IF you want to
be incumbered, swathed about, as it
We're, with undying devotion, YOU must
60 upon the stage. The alteration will
com" mostly from young girls under.
IS. it is true. but then what mattel,
where one gets ONES sweets 80 that
they are an assured quality?
baltimore is particularly notable
Tor iovelorn maidens of this type, and
L have had as many as 4 dozen letters
day from them.
What do they want? To see me, to
kiss me, to look at me! They send me
fruit and flowers, bon-bons and books,
and they come up here and positively
walk into my room. very naturally
say, i don't know you. Who are YOU?
What do you want9 For heavens sake
go away positively turn them out.
Then, after time, there comes anoth-
er knock at the door, look out eau
tiously.
'' :Ah,' they say, my dear Mr=.--,
just let US see you minute o, do.
do, dor Then l say Nor very f1atly.
Well, then, let Us just kiss your hand.
Please put Your hand through the door,
and We Ii kiss it and go right away
As I'm not particular about being a
party to such idiocy l persist in nv re-
fusal I'm sure l can't imagine what
they mean by it. 1t makes me blush
for womankind. / wonder why their
mothers don't give them something to
keep them busy and prevent them from
making such horrible fools of them
selves. They beceme positively maud.
lin for want of something To do or some
reasonable object to centre their sur
plus ardency upon. And then the inn
pudence of them.
The other night l came out of nv
dressing-room after the evenings per
tormanee, and found pale-faced girl
atanding there, as lynx-eyed as a
Sheriff. As soon as she saw me she
ran up and caught hold of me and said:
%, please, Mrs. -, can't ride home
with you in your carriage?'
Why. certainly not. replied. She
didn't seem at all abashed. but looked
at me patrnnizingly and said;
g i just wanted Ia tell You / felt a
sort of pity for you.'
= Pity for me. gasped. my poor
little child there is s. 900 in the house.
| think You had better 90 home and
pray 10 be like me- l suppose the
ridiculous infant had cOnjured up the
idea that her artless sympathy would
be Il great heneiicence.
Another annoyance which every
actress is subjected to is the treatment
of the mob which waits ahout the
theatre doors. English mobs have
some features which are more terrible
than American mobs. They are really
more dangerous but not 50 impudent
rs American crowds.
''Once, when | got ont of my car
riage in London to go into the theater
there was very ill-natured mob about
the doors, and one hideous old woman
hit me violently across the back with
her umbrella and leered a frightful
face up at me.
" DO you think you're a lovely wo-
man. she shrieked.
- No said |, i don't. Do vou?'
The crowd stopped grumbling and be-
gan laughing. It's easy. enough to
deal with an English mob if one only
knows the way to do it.
Here the crowds are mostly made
up of young boys. and they are incor-
rigible and shout the most dreadful
things after one There seems to be
no effort TO stop them at all. 1t is like
rncountering shot and shell to go from
the theatrr TO the carriage"